The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Truth is a pathless land.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Ethics and power are separate.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Of two evils, choose neither.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.